[Digikam-users] Import from scanner problems

[Andrew Goodbody]

I am trying to scan some colour negatives. In response to Dmitri Popov's 
article 
http://scribblesandsnaps.com/2013/01/29/process-film-negatives-with-digikam/ 
I am trying to make use of digikam for this.
I can use xsane to produce a full colour scan of the negatives, saved as 
png or tiff. I then use digikam image editor as described in the article 
mentioned above. This works very well but I wanted to eliminate the use 
of xsane.
So I tried to use the Import from scanner function in digikam. Apart 
from a bug that causes a segfault in digikam when I launch the scanner a 
2nd time I have another problem. The preview looks as it should, ie just 
like the film negative, a reddish brown rectangle. However when the scan 
is completed and the image is saved then it has a very strong blue cast. 
The thumbnail shown in digikam is still reddish brown but the main image 
shows this blue cast. I presume that some sort of colour correction is 
being applied but I don't know how to stop that happening. Anyone know?

I just need a faithful scan of the negative so that the film negative 
inversion can do its job. This blue cast is interfering with that.

Andrew